Value Chip Stocks 2025 to Buy Now? Lam Research (LRCX)

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Lam Research (LRCX) is gearing up for a powerhouse 2025, riding the wave of a booming semiconductor market with cutting-edge tech like molybdenum processing and AI-driven automation. If you’re looking for a chip stock that’s mixing innovation with solid growth, this is one you don’t want to ignore!

Will AI Eat Software Stocks? Salesforce’s AI Bets For 2025

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Over on Semi Insider, and later in the video here https://youtu.be/aEcd5uVYkww, we discussed with our members some changes we made to our enterprise SaaS stock portfolio for 2025. This includes a small change with our long-time holding in Salesforce (CRM). Here are those research notes in blog form. Let’s get you up to speed if […]

CyberArk-Plus-Venafi — Adding A New Cybersecurity Leader to the Basket In 2025?

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The following is a thread we posted last week on Semiconductor Insider. And for reference, this is a follow up to the video we did on CyberArk (CYBR) a couple months ago, as well as one back in spring 2024, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/KZNef6PbrBo https://youtu.be/DAjstoo-SK4 CyberArk vs. Okta — what’s the difference, in […]

Who Really Wins In the Legal Battle Between Arm & Qualcomm? Maybe Not Who You Think

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Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) earnings were good, as per usual. Nothing we felt like we needed to specifically address. But there were some management comments made regarding an expanded relationship between Cadence and processor technology licensor and IP leader Arm Holdings (ARM).  It seemed pertinent given Arm and Qualcomm‘s (QCOM) tit-for-tat legal battle. The court […]

Impinj PI Stock – Up 200% In A Year

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We wanted to do a one-year-later review on Impinj (PI), but October came and went, and we ran out of time. Here’s our original article from October 2023: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/10/03/1-top-small-cap-chip-stock-that-could-be-poised/  Impinj is up some 200% since then! We didn’t buy (there was no room in our small-cap and small-bets basket), but maybe a few of you […]

Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) Stock – More Patience Required From Investors

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With Q1 fiscal 2025 earnings in hand (for the three months ended in August 2024), investors are feeling a bit more optimistic about Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) stock once again. We won’t spend a lot of time on that today. The market is particularly fickle on this one, likely reflecting the high amount of trader […]

A Pure-Play Bet On Nvidia Blackwell Growth? Astera Labs Deep Dive

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We’re coming up on the six-month-anniversary of Astera Labs’ (ALAB) initial public offering (which occurred in March 2024, if you’re reading/watching this installment later than September). Since Chip Stock Investor has yet to do a deep dive (the CSI way is to let the dust settle on hot IPOs for at least six to 12 […]